When and what age did you buy your first gun?

[Davek1977]

I purchased an Norinco SKS from a family friend at 12-13. Still have it today @ age 34, and would gladly pay another $110 for one just like it!!

 

[HarleyFixer]

I have been shooting since about 6 and owned .22's and BB guns but the first gun I purchased was at 17 but I couldn't do it alone. I had just joined the police dept and my Sgt had to sign for my brand new S&W Mod 19. BTW this was 1971.

 

[Wild Country]

I was 12, it was a New England Firearms single shot .410, paid $74 plus tax out the door, gun still rides around behind the seat of my truck.

 

[Wild Country]

:banghead::banghead::banghead:

 

[TNboy]

First gun I bought with my own money was a junky Ted Williams 20 gauge auto with a poly choke. I bought it in a pawn shop and it was a complete piece of junk. Didn't keep it long at all, then I bought my Remington 870 12 gauge, I was 12 and probably weighed all of 75 pounds but I handled that shotgun well. I had a 20 gauge single before that that was a Christmas present and a .22 that was handed down after that. The first rifle that I bought and paid for with my own money was a Mauser M96 in .270 when I was 16. That is still my go to deer rifle. Funny most of my long guns that get the most use are the ones I purchased in my youth. I was into guns then though and I had the money for them then, I was smart enough to buy as many as I could, I used to tell people "I'm buying as many guns as I can now, because once I get a wife and kids and a house I might not have enough money for more guns." Still waiting on that wife, kids, and house thing yet my gun buying has harshly tapered off.

 

[Bmac1949]

I had a pump BB gun as a kid and my grandfather gave me a .22 when I was about 18 buty the first gun I ever bought was a 20 guage Marlin bolt action at Gibsons (the original Walmart) in Lake Charles, La. I even killed a few ducks and geese with it down there around Cameron. it seems like I paid $30.00 for it. A couple of years later I bought a Remmington 1100 12 guage. Today for a shotgun I use an 870 12 guage.

 

[PaulKersey3]

11 years old. Dad took me to a gun show. A guy had large containers of junk and tools with everything 5 dollars on a sign. Second bin I was digging through I found a little .38 short H&R Bicycle gun. The guy was surprised it was in there, but sold it to my dad for five bucks. The one and only gun I've ever sold, and I still regret it!

 

[jim243]

1961 at 18 years old a 22lr Erma

 

[Boo-Radley]

My first gun was a Mossberg Bolt Action Single Shot .22LR. My father bought it for me the year I turned six (1963.)

My second was another .22LR, but a semi-auto. I'm real sketchy on when, why, and how this rifle showed up. Seems like it was a Winchester. Eventually it got passed around the family and different "owners" a few times.

The first firearm I spent my own money on was a Harrington & Richardson Topper Model 158 chambered for 30-30 Winchester. I was twelve years old. H & R now markets the 158 as the so-called Handi Rifle, but they are really not the same. If any of you guys ever handled an original TM 158, you know it was a work of art compared to the Handi Rifle. It was $59.00. I earned the money picking strawberries. Good crop that year. I earned enough for the rifle, a Schwinn bicycle, and all my own school clothes and supplies.

 

[FreddyKruger]

First gun i shot was my dads BRNO .22lr.

My first gun was a Remington 700 Varmint in .308win.

Its changed a fair bit since i got it. bigger scope, HS Precision stock and a cdi detachable mag.

 

[HarcyPervin]

Aside from BB guns and the like, I got my first shotgun at 13, and a .22 later that year.

First gun that I bought myself (walked into store, paid with my card, etc) was this summer at 24.

 

[Ignition Override]

A pellet gun at age 14, and the first firearm at age 52, October '07: AO "M-1 Carbine"...had done zero research.
It went back to the factory for a free repair, due to shoddy design or quality control (jammed bolt).

My so-called "Commie junk" SKS (3,000 rds. of Wolf) or old Ruger Minis never had a malfunction.

Inherited a 1940's Savage .22 in the late 70s and did not use it again for about twenty five years.
Trying very hard to catch up (only milsurps) while the eyes are still ok.

 

[Liberty1776]

I was 14. 1965. A Remington single shot .22. My older brother (16) and I went to the local rummage barn and bought it. There were no questions asked. We paid $12. We lived on a farm and when we got it home there was no more fuss than if we had gone to the store and bought a bottle of pop. Less, actually, because as we all know, pop ain't good for you.

 

[ThatGuyHank]

Personally bought my first gun the day I got my ID card from the police. Put in the app on my 18th birthday and got the card 2 months later (and that's fast here in New Jersey). Bought a Marlin .22 that was older than me and a mossberg 500. This was 2010 and since then I've inherited my grandfather's rather large collection of fine shooting irons my favorite of which is a Colt 70 series 1911 named "Moses".

 

[Rontherunner]

I was quite adult when I bought my first gun, a s&w 686. Had 3 murders within a mile of where I lived, in 6 months. One morning woke up to find my back door had withstood someone's efforts to break in while we were home. Time to get a gun...

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[medalguy]

I bought my first gun, a Swiss Vetterli 1878 rifle, from a pawn shop I think at age 15. I was a freshman in high school at any rate. That was before guns were considered "evil" and every kid had one-- or more. No one thought it unusual for a 15 year old to buy a rifle.

Interesting side story: My high school was located in downtown (the city doesn't matter) and I bought the rifle at lunch time when we had permission to leave school to run errands, or eat elsewhere if we so desired. I lugged that rifle back to school and put it in my locker until the end of school, then rode the school bus home with it.

Now the REALLY fun part. While a senior, I discovered a scrap yard with a lot of cut-up guns, and bought several demilled .50 cal Browning machine guns, repaired several, and had them operating in a few days with a few replacement parts. Hey, this was way before 1968 and no one really cared if you had a machine gun way back then. They were all registered during the 1968 amnesty just in case you were wondering.

 

[Buck Kramer]

Mossberg 500, I had to work the entire summer picking rock for $5.40 an hour just to save up to get it the summer I turned 14. I traded it for a Remington 11-87 that fell apart on the 3rd shot:banghead:

 

[bowman1962]

First gun I ever bought with my own earned money was a beautiful Remington 700 BDL in 30-06 for $289.00. Worked my tail off for that gun, but it was worth every hour and every drop of sweat! That was when I was 15back in 77, had to have Mom fill out the paperwork!

 

[Maple_City_Woodsman]

First long gun @ 18 years old, at a gun store.

First hand gun that same year, via private sale.

 

[VT Deer Hunter]

12 and it was a Mossberg bolt action 12 Ga.

 

[Powerglide]

410 springfield bolt shotgun and model 15 sshot 22 springfield rifle.About age 7. Pretty young. Shortly thereafter in a pawn shop I found a Long Branch pristine sportered 303.Gave 25 bucks.Lol. Oh, the good old days.Been addicted ever since to any weapon!

 

[BinhThuyUSN]

My first rifle purchase was a Beeman Air Rifle and my age 61. Kinda wimpy for this forum. But later that year, a CZ 453 American 22lr was purchased.

 

[Manny]

First was a Ruger 5.5" Single Six when I was 21 or 22 back in the early eighties. I wanted a .357 but deferred to the advice of experts and soon regretted it. Took a loss on the Single Six a year or two later and moved up to a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 mag. I was MUCH happier with that gun and have never once missed nor regretted selling the SS.

 

[PONTIACDM]

Age 21, Marlin 30/30, I'm 35 now and still have it.

 

[Bonesinium]

I was 22?

Both a Tikka T3 and a Taurus PT 1911.

The happy couple.